Hi all, in preparation for getting our house rendered I'm hoping to sort out the mess that is our back door. If you are a door fitter and you turned up here what would you do?
It is one of the last things we need to do but I've been putting it off because I'm not sure how best to approach it. It is a really odd size door (865/34" 185.5/73") for starters so getting a new one will be a PITA.
For some reason the door frame seems to be recessed into the reveals, flush with the render instead of standing proud, which seems odd. Also, the threshold is right on the edge of the kitchen slab, leaving a step right on the edge of the threshold. As a result the jambs/stops have nothing to terminate on at the bottom and are finished with a really sketchy looking big rectangle of wood which goes down to the level of the porch landing in front of the door. I think the Jambs/stops are actually just an old bit of architrave anyway. Maybe it used to open out and the previous owner changed it?
I don't want the reveals to be rendered until we've sorted out something here so hoped you could all give your views on the best course of action.
I was thinking of building a small form and extending the kitchen floor's concrete pad slightly further out to the face of the exterior wall, essentially making a step in front of the threshold at the same height as the interior floor (see 2nd pic). It would bridge across the DPC but is that really likely to be a big problem on a small area adjoining a concrete slab? I figure this will give a level surface for a deeper door frame/threshold if we fit a new door. At the very least this would allow a new jamb to terminate at the same height as the bottom of the door if I replace the old wood with something tidier.
The door frame itself is a state where the door strike plate was and presumably got ripped out at some point. is it reasonable just to fill this with an epoxy wood filler then try to tidy it us as well as possible? I thought about overlaying a new strip of timber about 20mm thick onto the frame to cover all the old damage and reducing the door width as an alternative?
The porch concrete pad is showing a crack where it had shifted in the past. This is right under where I was planning on forming the new step from concrete. The porch pad was previously supported/surrounded by a wall at the outside edge which was collapsing so I had to remove the wall and concrete it all up quickly as beneath the porch slab was just rubble with no support. This has been done for over a year and there is no further movement so I think it should not cause any problems. Not pretty, but the next part of the project is filling the remaining gaps under the porch slab and finishing with brick slips then slabs on the steps and porch... but that's another story.
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.
It is one of the last things we need to do but I've been putting it off because I'm not sure how best to approach it. It is a really odd size door (865/34" 185.5/73") for starters so getting a new one will be a PITA.
For some reason the door frame seems to be recessed into the reveals, flush with the render instead of standing proud, which seems odd. Also, the threshold is right on the edge of the kitchen slab, leaving a step right on the edge of the threshold. As a result the jambs/stops have nothing to terminate on at the bottom and are finished with a really sketchy looking big rectangle of wood which goes down to the level of the porch landing in front of the door. I think the Jambs/stops are actually just an old bit of architrave anyway. Maybe it used to open out and the previous owner changed it?
I don't want the reveals to be rendered until we've sorted out something here so hoped you could all give your views on the best course of action.
I was thinking of building a small form and extending the kitchen floor's concrete pad slightly further out to the face of the exterior wall, essentially making a step in front of the threshold at the same height as the interior floor (see 2nd pic). It would bridge across the DPC but is that really likely to be a big problem on a small area adjoining a concrete slab? I figure this will give a level surface for a deeper door frame/threshold if we fit a new door. At the very least this would allow a new jamb to terminate at the same height as the bottom of the door if I replace the old wood with something tidier.
The door frame itself is a state where the door strike plate was and presumably got ripped out at some point. is it reasonable just to fill this with an epoxy wood filler then try to tidy it us as well as possible? I thought about overlaying a new strip of timber about 20mm thick onto the frame to cover all the old damage and reducing the door width as an alternative?
The porch concrete pad is showing a crack where it had shifted in the past. This is right under where I was planning on forming the new step from concrete. The porch pad was previously supported/surrounded by a wall at the outside edge which was collapsing so I had to remove the wall and concrete it all up quickly as beneath the porch slab was just rubble with no support. This has been done for over a year and there is no further movement so I think it should not cause any problems. Not pretty, but the next part of the project is filling the remaining gaps under the porch slab and finishing with brick slips then slabs on the steps and porch... but that's another story.
Any advice or suggestions gratefully received.